Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

wraeth wrote:
> On 14/09/15 15:34, Dale wrote:
> > Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the
> > same time, although portage says it is not a blocker.
>
> > For future reference, I went and dug in this path:
>
> > /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
>
> > It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared
> > it up.  Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough.  If
> > anything was in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to
> > remove first.
>
> > So, it's fixed.  I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy.
> > ;-)
>
> Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from
> sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following
> packages installed from the sys-fs category:
>
> eix -cI\#C sys-fs
> sys-fs/btrfs-progs
> sys-fs/cryptsetup
> sys-fs/e2fsprogs
> sys-fs/fuse
> sys-fs/lvm2
> sys-fs/ntfs3g
> sys-fs/udev
> sys-fs/udev-init-scripts
> sys-fs/udisks
>
> Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/
>
> ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6
>
> If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs
> category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other
> mysteries may be afoot...
>


I have this:

root@fireball / # equery list sys-fs/*
 * Searching for * in sys-fs ...
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/dfc-3.0.5-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/dosfstools-3.0.28:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/eudev-3.1.2-r10:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/fuse-2.9.4:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.110:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/mdadm-3.3.1-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/mtools-4.0.15:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/ntfs3g-2014.2.15-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/reiser4progs-1.0.9:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.24:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/shake-0.999:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/treesize-0.54.1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-27:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udisks-2.1.4:2
root@fireball / #  

I use eudev to manage /dev.  Since I know I already have software to
manage that, I didn't want to emerge that failed one since it could
clash with what I already have installed.  That said, portage didn't
show it as a blocker or anything.  I likely could have emerged it, then
unmerged it and not cause a problem.  I was just to chicken to do it is
all. 

In my search, I was searching for static-dev so it would only show
matches to that and not the other packages in sys-fs.  If I had searched
for sys-fs/* then it would have shown what was installed in that category. 

The biggest thing, I just didn't want to screw something up and google
wasn't returning anything when I searched.  No clue why it didn't tho. 
It's rare that google shows no matches.  It usually finds something even
if it is off the mark a bit. 

Dale

:-)  :-)